Evan Wiggleswade

a Harry Potter blog focusing on canon + occasional headcanons

[harrypotterconfessions]

I wonder how many of the muggle-raised students were smart enough to continue their normal education while attending Hogwarts. The magical world seem to have very limited options as far as employment goes, so getting a proper non-magical education is just as, if not more important for their ability to take care of themselves as adults.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Sorry, but I don't catch what you're talking about. Muggle-raised kids don't continue with their normal education while at Hogwarts. They attend Hogwarts. They don't continue with maths and stuff. And being able to care about themselves after school would be just as important to everyone, not just those who are raised by muggles.

But there seems to be a lot of working possibilities even within the wizarding world. You can work within the ministry, and that alone is a wide variety of jobs. Then you can be a healer, a teacher, have a shop, cafe, whatever, really. But really I'm more concerned about their ability to cook and wash their clothes.

[slytherin-headcanons]

#SlytherinPride

(submitted by olivertsatchell )

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

This is not cool. I will never understand why anyone would get the dark mark tattoo for real. It's the mark of bigotry and discrimination, so unless people who take the dark mark tattoo are bigots in real life, I don't understand. It's not Slytherin pride, because being a death eater is not a Slytherin thing, even in canon there were death eaters from every house, except maybe Hufflepuff. I identify as a Slytherin (always have) and being a bigot is not part of my house pride.

[harrypotterconfessions]

The people who complain about the black-and-white morality of Harry Potter simply don’t want to see the grey areas. Dumbledore and Snape are the definitions of morally grey. Harry, Ron and Hermione make morally grey decisions. James and Sirius have greyness in them. You’re the ones looking at it through absolutes, fitting characters into neat boxes, when Rowling made it very clear that the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters.

[harrypotterconfessions]

I feel like the people who think the wizarding world is worse off than the muggle world are not well-informed of how fucked up our world really is.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

The wizarding world is different from the muggle world. You can't compare them and say one is better and one is worse. Both have good and bad things, both fail spectacularly at certain areas and make great success in others. But they are very different.

[harrypotterconfessions]

Wizards are just dicks tbh, like they have so many opportunities to help muggles, yet they never take the opportunity. Wizardry and sorcerery being inherited traits adds an element of superiority and condescension to the mix, that even muggleborns partake in. The strangest is when wizards cast memory spells and hide secret bases in phonebooths, and then say things like “aww bless them, they don’t notice anything”. Hermione’s parents barely being seen or mentioned also rubs me the wrong way.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

I don't buy any of that muggles don't notice shit. They notice, I'm sure of it. But wizards are just so damn arrogant and think too little of muggles, so they don't notice the muggles notice. I mean, hundreds of people disappearing at King's Cross in board daylight? Peoole flying on broomsticks from Privet drive? How come those ministry cars that jump to the front of the line are any legal? The flying motorcycle (it was probably illegal but still)? I mean, putting put the street lights isn't gonna help much in a city. There's always that much light.

I'm fully convinced some muggles know, but they are just being like "whatever, that kind of strange shit happens" and "oh fuck that was some strange shit just now, but it must be that crazy neighbour who wears robes and has a pet owl".

[fanonical]

why would wizards like fireworks? surely they’d get the same effect by casting almost any spell ever

[theherbalistsadventure-deactiva]

I refer you to book 5 and the masterful creations of the Weasley twins. Wizard fireworks don’t just go boom, they also spell out “fuck you” as they fly into the air and explode into the shape of a hand flippiing you off.

[politicalsci]

[harrypotterconfessions]

Considering that my generation loves comparing things to Harry Potter, it’s funny how they overlooked that HP (rightfully) portrays Journalists/News Media as awful (both as people and as a whole). The News uses and lies to people, they pretend to support people as long as they parrot their views but turn on them when they don’t, the only time they tell the truth is to save their own skins and PR, and the (In-Universe) “alternative sources” tell more truth then the News does.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

The HP series portray the media and also the government and other authoritative forces very accurately and delightfully critically in my opinion. As a kid it went straight over my head, but now I get it and I love it.

[harrypotterconfessions]

I get why some may consider Remus worse because he was a prefect and didn’t help Snape, but unlike James and Sirius, I can actually understand Remus side. He was attacked and nearly killed by Fenrir at the age of five. He lived all his life with no friends. He gets to school and finally makes friends with people who accept him for who he is. I think with that kind of importance they played in his life, its easy to see why he turned a blind eye. He didn’t want to be rejected by them over Snape.

[moonlight-spectacles]

The only issue I have with Remus not stopping his friends, is because he was a prefect. He knew the responsibilities of wearing the badge, and so he should have realized in taking the badge, that it meant he needed to take on the responsibility of stopping James and Sirius from acting out. If he felt he couldn’t do that, that is understandable, but he shouldn’t take the badge then.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Can you refuse if you’re made prefect? Is it possible to say no? What would happen if you did? And is refusing to be a prefect something that is really done, even if it technically would be possible?

[moonlight-spectacles]

I never thought that they would force it on anyone. Being prefect is a privilege , not a punishment. I doubt they would make anyone take on that responsibility if the person is not comfortable doing so.  

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

You're probably right now that one thinks about it.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Omg I just realized one funny thing. Harry’s patronus is a stag. But the funny thing is, in my language there is a word that means both a stag and a male moose (that word is used in the translations). So now I cannot unimagine Harry’s patronus being a male moose:

[harrypotterconfessions]

I get why some may consider Remus worse because he was a prefect and didn’t help Snape, but unlike James and Sirius, I can actually understand Remus side. He was attacked and nearly killed by Fenrir at the age of five. He lived all his life with no friends. He gets to school and finally makes friends with people who accept him for who he is. I think with that kind of importance they played in his life, its easy to see why he turned a blind eye. He didn’t want to be rejected by them over Snape.

[moonlight-spectacles]

The only issue I have with Remus not stopping his friends, is because he was a prefect. He knew the responsibilities of wearing the badge, and so he should have realized in taking the badge, that it meant he needed to take on the responsibility of stopping James and Sirius from acting out. If he felt he couldn’t do that, that is understandable, but he shouldn’t take the badge then.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Can you refuse if you’re made prefect? Is it possible to say no? What would happen if you did? And is refusing to be a prefect something that is really done, even if it technically would be possible?

[fanonical]

let’s be real, half the reason all us nerds want to go to hogwarts is so we can go to a school with no p.e/gym class

like seriously, quidditch is the closest thing hogwarts gets to physical education, and it’s about as active as playing mario kart

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Well with all those stairs you will probably be in top condition even without a gym class.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Spoiler: Harry Potter was bisexual the whole time

It just didn’t say because Harry is very unobservant.

[cooltrainerzero]

He does comment on how attractive young Tom Riddle was. Like… a lot.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Lol. Cedric too, as I remember?

[calliope-calliope]

and Bill Weasley

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

And (young) Sirius.

[harrypotterconfessions]

I’ve nothing against people adding diversity to the series - I love to see POC and LGBT characters. However one thing that’s never made sense to me is headcanons of characters being Latino and Native American. Sure, for Fantastic Beasts it’d be great but Harry Potter is set in England. And while England has big enough populations of Black and Asian people, I don’t think there is much Latino and American presences. I just don’t think those headcanons make sense.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

I used to think like this too, but then someone accurately pointed out that they are magical people who live in a magical world... A world that is very much isolated from the muggle one, they have made their own thing for over 300 years so things are very different. And as wizards have portkeys and apparation and whatnot means for traveling, and can travel long distances in matters of seconds... So it would actually make more sense to the wizarding world to have more diversity than our muggle world. So those headcanons make very much sense indeed.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Imagine being the next-door neighbour to the Dursleys. Maybe being as nosy as Petunia. The Dursleys are afraid the neighbours will notice and put on a great facade. Yet all those strange things happen and the neighbours are bound to notice. The Dursleys are not nearly as sneaky as they’d like and neither are wizards. There are owls flying in and out of the house and a couple of big tropical birds, you hear all kind of explosions and bangs in the summertimes, and you see them put bars on a window, and then that flying car wait what? Then half of the Durlsleys’ living room is blown-up, but now you’re just so used to it so you’re just like whatever, those Dursleys... And then a year later after some strange incident that involves almost unconscious Dudley, that Potter boy and strangely enough Mrs Figg who seems to know exactly whtat’s going on... pecks of owls are flocking the house again, a whole bunch of really strange looking folks appear and then they leave flying on broomsticks?! Because it’s never that dark in a city area that you cannot see what’s happening outside, no matter what these streetlights out-putting robe-clad folks seem to think... And the same happens one more time, strange folks, they leave on broomsticks and something invisible that makes people float in the air, and that flying motorbike you rememeber from some 16 years ago, and it then you see some strange lights on the sky and yeah it could be fireworks but you have just this inkling... And the Dursleys don’t come back for almost a year. And meanwhile the house get robbed by some black cloaked masked people, and you think about calling the police, but you just somehow think the police could not do much, so you let it pass. You’re just happy they’re not coming for your house. And yeah the Dursleys can go on living their “perfectly normal” life, thank you very much, you are not going to interfere or say anything because good god, you don’t want to know. But then your kid marries a witch and you learn everything.

[harrypotterconfessions]

Where are the people who scream “sexism” whenever anyone expresses dissatisfaction with the character of Ginny Weasley when characters like Fleur, Lavender, and Cho are mistreated by fandom, and even canon? Pretty much all of those passive aggressive Must Love Ginny lists floating around tumblr, besides being at least 50% composed of (possibly valid, but still) headcanons, need to point out (as does canon) that Ginny is tough, not teary, unlike Cho. (Who, horrors, cries cos her bf dies). Gross.

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

I will defend any character if they get hate they don’t deserve in my opinion. But I rarely see hate for Cho or Lavender, and I’ve already written a post where I question the hate Fleur is getting. But like Cho and Lavender, mostly I’ve seen people just saying they could have been so much more but never got the chance, and there I agree. I will never not forgive JKR for not telling us whether Lavender survived the battle or not.

[harrypotterconfessions]

I’m so tired of the fandom trend of having the potter/Weasleys practically adopt every next-gen kid. Like with Teddy. Yes, Harry is his godfather, and I’m sure they have a beautiful relationship, but Harry and Ginny are not his parents. Andromeda is. It’s even worse with Scorpius - all these headcanons about him spending Christmas with the Potters and “finally feeling like he belongs.” Um. He has his dad. Y'know, the same dad that fought War Hero slash Head Auror Harry Potter in his kitchen for hurting his son’s feelings? Who loves Scorpius very much, and whom Scorpius loves as well? Yeah, that’s who Scorpius is gonna be angstily confiding in, not Harry, his … Best friend’s father (??), who doesn’t have a history of being particularly fair to him. Scorpius and Teddy have families (yep, they come in different shapes and sizes). They’re not in the same position that Harry was once in.

https://until-the-dark.deviantart.com/art/Teddy-Lupin-261657799

[evanwiggleswade-blog]

Yeah, me too. Every time I read a fic where Harry adopts Teddy, I feel so bad for Andromeda. She lost her husband and daughter in the war, she damn well should be allowed to keep Teddy. And she isn’t even that old when Teddy is born, so she wouldn’t be sick and frail and one foot in the grave any time soon either, especially when wizards obviously live longer than muggles. And I can’t see Harry taking Teddy away from his family. And every time I see someone write anything like Harry saying Teddy is his son, I cringe. Harry knew his parents, he wouldn’t say that. He would sure tell Teddy all the stories he knew about his parents, but never be one to claim Teddy was his own son.

Harry probably spent a lot of time with Teddy, but I don’t see why that would mean excluding Andromeda. I believe she would become quite close to Harry after the war, and I happily headcanon Andromeda and Teddy coming over for dinner, and then other times Harry having Teddy for a day or two to give Andromeda some time of her own. But